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First I'd like to express disappointment that dharmach is being down voted just for asking a question. A question worth asking. Second, this is an excellent an
by UrMomReadsHN 12y ago
First I'd like to express disappointment that dharmach is being down voted just for asking a question. A question worth asking.
Second, this is an excellent answer.
If the government wants you to give up your civil liberties and uses the threat of a terrorist attack to get you to give them up, then they have become terrorists as well. However, I don't know if that is the explicit goal or not or just the outcome of a grossly over exaggerated response. I do know if someone wants to get their way they usually just say "terrorism" or "children."
Terrorist attacks are rare. Humans are terrible at evaluating risks.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> However, I don't know if that is the explicit goal or not or just the outcome of a grossly over exaggerated response. I'm leaning towards the second. Governments, especially democratic, are complicated systems, and as such a collective failure resulting from many small actions guided in various forms of self-interest seems much more probable than a grand conspiracy. I believe that the US terror actions abroad are just that outcome of a grossly exaggerated response, a failure mode the Government can't find a way to get out of.
- UrMomReadsHN 12y agoI was thinking more individual power grabs on multiple different levels more than grand conspiracy.